Executive Leadership Group is a women-owned small business
and a leader in strategic planning and implementation.

These partnerships and accreditations highlight our credentials

For over three decades, we’ve aligned countless teams

And changed these businesses for the better

[ELG’s strategy alignment process] is a uniquely effective system for strategy implementation. We’ve never had so much clarity about the work we need to be doing. We have also never been so certain that all work being done supports corporate goals. It has given us the focus and discipline we need to get us where we need to go.

CD HobbsCEOSPL WorldGroup

ELG’s strategy alignment process has helped my team create a level of clarity and focus on business results that has repaid our investment in time and money many times over.

Bob WennerVP Design EngineeringSeagate Technology

ELG’s strategy alignment did, indeed, help align my senior leadership team. It provided a very effective forum for helping our execs gain a more in-depth understanding of our strategy and the interrelationships between different parts of the organization. We left the meeting with a clear sense of how each management team member’s objectives need to relate to accomplishing our overall goals.

Jim SennPresidentING Re

My organization is now better focused on precisely the right results, not just the actions that we need to do to get there. This focus and the plans that support it put us miles ahead of our competitors.

Lisa KunzAVPSt Paul Companies

Over the years, I have been impressed with ELG’s understanding of how to help organizations get things done – through strategy alignment, project management or on major initiatives. They were able to work well with me and with all levels of my organization and always demonstrated a high level of skill, business knowledge and integrity.

Dave LaubeExecutive in ResidenceUniversity of Colorado at Denver College of Business

By working with ELG’s strategy alignment process methodology, the Marketing and Sales organization has finally reached a level of strategy-tactic linkage and accountability that we have been striving for over the last 18 months. As you know, your work has been a critical component in helping us build an infrastructure to move from an entrepreneurial startup to a high growth organization.

Susan SchaeferSr. Vice PresidentQwest Wireless

ELG’s project management training has helped us understand all the basics — plus organizational factors — that affect project success. The result has been many more projects coming in on time, on budget, and on spec.

Robb MankinDirectorSeagate Technology

It was my good fortune to learn ELG’s approach to project and program management. The concepts concerning accountability, leadership, change management, and project management driven by measures of performance (Whole Goals™), are relevant, critical, and are applied by my team and me on a daily basis. I would encourage any individual or organization to give these principles a detailed look.

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Our Values

It’s easy to write lists entitled “our values.” But if those values aren’t what people see in you, then they’re not really your values. So here are some comments made about us, by real clients, that we think indicate our values:

“You really forced us to think. I would say that my staff now thinks up one or two levels, strategically.” [We believe that leaders should look beyond their own teams, departments, or whatever, and consider a broad context, looking for ideas and outcomes that reach beyond the obvious.]

“That was the best planning session I can recall. My team is finally pointed in the same direction.” [We believe that leadership teams need to help shape direction and strategy – while the boss retains 51% of the votes. We’re talking here about group understanding and ownership; we’re not talking about group accountability, which is a disaster.]

“You give us useable product. You don’t just hand us a bunch of sticky notes and flip charts and wish us luck.” [We believe in hard work and seeing things through to completion.]

“You guys are not only professional and smart . . . you’re nice.” [Well, it’s more fun being nice. Anyway, we want to be as friction-free to deal with as possible, and still speak useful truth.]

Our Philosophy

We view our support in any service area as temporary. Our job is to expand the bandwidth of very busy leaders, temporarily, so their great ideas can happen faster. We won’t be backing up the bus.

We provide immediate help while also increasing internal organizational capabilities for the long run. There is almost always an educational component to our engagements.

We believe leaders should be developed at every level of the organization. So, whether we’re working on a project, in a department, or with the senior team, our methods are designed to support continued leadership development.

We believe in elegant simplicity – making things understandable and actionable. We apply this philosophy to our assessments, our courses, and our consulting.

Think of Us When

You need to focus and align your team – no matter how large your team may be

You want to replicate and accelerate the good things happening in your organization

You want to solve a problem that poses a risk to your organization’s success

You want to build a broad base of leadership and management capabilities in your organization

You want to ensure the success of a critical change initiative or cross-organizational project